Figures

Student-reported likelihood of choosing a STEM career as a function of the highest interest quorum experienced in students’ last high school biology, chemistry, or physics class [from most students “Not at all interested” (group 0) to “Very interested” (group 4)]. Dark bars represent means without covariates, and light bars represent means after controlling for covariates including gender, academic achievement, family support for science and mathematics, and previous STEM career interests in middle school and high school. Error bars represent ±1 SE.

Effect size (Cohen’s d) of differences between interest quorum groups as a function of the gap between group levels (that is, groups 1 and 2 have a gap of 1, whereas groups 1 and 3 have a gap of 2), both with no covariates and with covariates of gender, academic achievement, family support for science and mathematics, and previous STEM career interests in middle school and high school.

Student-reported likelihood of choosing a biology, chemistry, or physics career as a function of the interest quorum experienced in biology, chemistry, or physics class, respectively [from most students “Not at all interested” (group 0) to “Very interested” (group 4)]. Covariates included gender, academic achievement, family support for science and mathematics, and previous STEM career interests in middle school and high school. Error bars represent ±1 SE.